Discussion In medicine, different data exist on the effectiveness of checklists and MECA: whereas prior research in the perioperative setting showed a highly significant reduction of missed critical process steps (6% when checklists were available vs. 23% when they were unavailable) [ 3 ], the implementation of a pediatric sedation safety checklist failed to show a significant reduction in sedation-related adverse events [ 11 ].
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